Heating and ventilating th e walls of buildings



(No Model.)

,W. BENNER. HEATING AND VENTILATING THE WALLS OF BUILDINGS.

No. 446,848. Patented Feb. 24,1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

XVILLIAM BENNER, OF TIEFIN, OHIO.

HEATING AND VENTILATING ITHE WALLS'OF BUILDINGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 446,848, dated February 24, 1891. Application filed August 12, 1890. Serial No. 361,803. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM BENNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tiffi n, in the county of Seneca and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful I-Ieater and Ventilator, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in means for ventilating and heating buildings.

The object of the present invention is to provide simple and efiective means for heating and ventilating buildings and keeping the walls thereof free from dampness by circulating currents of fresh air therethrough.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional View of aportion of abuilding provided with means for ventilation constructed in accordance with i this invention. Figs. 2 and 3 are detail views. Referring to the accompanying drawings, 1 designates the wall of a building, which wall is hollow and provided with a vertical opening 2, extending throughout the same and adapted to permit a circulation of air from a cellar or other suitable place of supply to keep the bricks or other building material dry and entirely free from dampness and enable brick houses to be as perfectly healthy as frame ones.

3, 4, and ddesignatethe joists of the different floors or stories of the building, and air is conducted from a cellar 6 through a pipe 7 to elbows 8, constructed of metal and leading from the pipe 7 to a rectangular box 9, secured in the wall 1 and extending partially through the same,,and communicating by means of an angular pipe 10 with the opening 2 of the wall, the pipe 10 at one arm 11 communicating with the rectangular box 9, and the other arm 12 is provided at its end with a hood 13, having openings 14 upon op the solid portions or belts 17 of the wall, and

the said flanges or flaring ends 16 prevent the tubes leaving the solid portion or belt 17, which is occasioned by the joists of the building, and serve to strengthen the wall at a point subject to great strain. After reaching the top of the central opening 2 of the wall the air enters an angular pipe 18, which is constructed of metal, and has its lower end 19 opened and its other end 20 communicating with a rectangular box 21. The rectangular box 21 is secured in the wall and is constructed similarly to the box 9 before described, andextends through the wall and has communicating with it another angular pipe 22, which leads to a flue or conduit 23, arranged in the attic 24., which preferably extends to a chimney. By this means airis conducted from the cellar through the wall to the attic or chimney, and the wall is maintained perfectly dry and free from dampness, thereby enabling brick houses and the like to be constructed as dry and as healthy as frame houses. The pipe 7 may, if desired, communicate with a furnace or heater for the purpose of supplying warm currents of air to the walls, or communication may be made with the air outside the building or any room in the building.

It will be seen that the means for ventilating buildings are simple in construction and effective in operation and are easily applied to a building, and the walls of the latter may be maintained perfectly dry and free from dampness. I

From the foregoing description and the accompanying drawings the construction, operation, and advantages of the invention will readily be understood.

I hat I claim is l 1. An improved means for ventilating and heating buildings and preventing dampness therein, consisting of the wall 1, having the central opening 2, the rectangular boxes secured in the wall, and the angular pipes communicating with the boxes and arranged within and upon the outside of the wall and commu nicating with the cellar and attic of a building, substantially as described.

2. An improved means or system of ventilating and heating, consisting of the hollow wall, the rectangularvboxes secured inthe wall, the angular pipes arranged within the opening of the wall and upon the outside of the latter, and the tube 15, arranged in the solid portion 17, substantially as described.

3. An improved system of ventilating or heating, comprising the wall 1, provided with the central opening 2, the rectangular boxes 9 and 21, secured to the elbow 8, leading from the cellar to the box 9, and the angular pipe 10, communicating with the box 9 and arranged within the opening 2 and provided at its upper end with a T-shaped hood 13, having openings 14 upon opposite sides of the pipe, substantially as described.

1. An improved system of ventilating and heating, comprising the wall 1, having the central opening 2, the rectangular box 9, ar-

\VILLIAM BEN NEH.

Witnesses:

JOHN W. STEWART, ROBERT LYsLE. 

